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Sarah Williams covers humanoids and embodied AI. Former startup founder, switched to journalism because she wanted to ask harder questions.
Four new papers on visual robot navigation dropped this week, and together they're pointing at something important: the hardest problem isn't seeing the world, it's knowing what body you're in.
Sarah Williams · 1 hour ago · 6 min
Separate research teams tackled GPS-denied exploration from different angles this week, and together they paint a picture of where robot autonomy is actually heading.
Sarah Williams · 3 hours ago · 6 min
AI ModelsSuper Micro Computer's plan to raise $7 billion through equity offerings to stock up on AI server components says something interesting about where the industry thinks this is all heading.
Sarah Williams · 5 hours ago · 5 min
Two new papers tackle one of the messiest problems in robot motion planning: keeping trajectories stable and physically believable over time.
Sarah Williams · 5 hours ago · 6 min
Two new papers push humanoid robots into high-speed, contact-heavy physical tasks. The results are genuinely impressive, and they point to something bigger.
Sarah Williams · 6 hours ago · 7 min
A bumper crop of arXiv papers this week suggests the field is quietly solving some of robotics' most stubborn problems, from data collection ergonomics to teaching robots to feel how heavy things are.
Sarah Williams · 7 hours ago · 7 min
The chip giant's latest numbers look like an AI infrastructure story. But if you're watching humanoids, there's something more interesting buried in there.
Sarah Williams · 10 hours ago · 4 min
OpenAI has confidentially filed its S-1, joining a public market race that's ballooned to a staggering $3.6 trillion. Whether that number should excite or terrify you depends on who you ask.
Sarah Williams · 12 hours ago · 3 min
Most coverage focused on Fable's power. The more interesting question was what Anthropic quietly decided to hide from users, and why.
Sarah Williams · 18 hours ago · 5 min
New research shows robots learning manipulation skills directly from watching humans, no expensive teleoperation required. I'm cautiously optimistic, but let's look at what's actually happening here.
Sarah Williams · 2 days ago · 4 min
New research uses reinforcement learning in a shared mathematical space to let soft robots adapt across wildly different body configurations without starting from scratch.
Sarah Williams · 2 days ago · 6 min
Three new papers tackle the same problem: how do you get a robot to understand 'I left my backpack on the table' when it can't even see the table?
Sarah Williams · 2 days ago · 4 min
After years of neglecting Siri, Apple finally showed up to the AI party. The question is whether anyone's still waiting for them.
Sarah Williams · 3 days ago · 6 min
Two years ago, Craig Federighi worried about distorting reality. At WWDC 2026, Apple unveiled tools that do exactly that.
Sarah Williams · 3 days ago · 5 min
Two new papers tackle robotic grasping from opposite directions, and honestly, both approaches reveal how far we still have to go.
Sarah Williams · 3 days ago · 4 min
New research shows that when two operators share the same mixed-reality workspace, they coordinate robot teams way better, even when the underlying tech stays exactly the same.
Sarah Williams · 3 days ago · 5 min
WWDC 2026 revealed Apple's new intelligence system runs on Google tech. I'm still figuring out what that actually means for the privacy promises.
Sarah Williams · 4 days ago · 4 min
After two years of investor impatience, Apple unveiled its next-gen AI platform. But catching up to the competition might be the easy part.
Sarah Williams · 4 days ago · 4 min
While everyone's chasing AI records, a quieter wave of startups wants to get you off your phone and into the same room as other humans.
Sarah Williams · 5 days ago · 3 min
A $30 billion cloud computing agreement isn't really about cloud computing. It's about something weirder.
Sarah Williams · 5 days ago · 4 min
Morgan Stanley's CIO thinks the semiconductor rally is built on a misunderstanding, and honestly, I'm starting to wonder if she's right.
Sarah Williams · 5 days ago · 4 min
Wealth managers are staring down an AI threat, and it's not humanoid robots — it's chatbots that clients actually trust.
Sarah Williams · 5 days ago · 6 min
BlackRock's CIO just pointed out something most tech coverage completely missed about the May jobs report.
Sarah Williams · 5 days ago · 5 min
FlowPRO and EVE tackle the same problem from opposite directions: making robot learning actually work outside the lab.
Sarah Williams · 6 days ago · 4 min
